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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1949.114.37
People
Maker's mark AF in shaped punch, British, English
Title
Tankard
Classification
Vessels
Work Type
vessel
Date
1652-1653
Places
Creation Place: Europe, United Kingdom, England, London
Period
Commonwealth & Protectorate (1649-1660)
Culture
British
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/221482

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Silver
Dimensions
18.7 x 21.6 x 17.5 cm (7 3/8 x 8 1/2 x 6 7/8 in.)
unspecified: 1110.3 g
Inscriptions and Marks
  • hallmark: on rim and top of cover, struck: lion passant, leopard's head, date letter
  • maker's mark: struck on rim and top of cover: AF [in shaped punch, Jackson p. 121, line 18]
  • coat of arms: front of cup, engraved: [Ray or Wray family coat of arms, helm and crest]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Private Collector, London, Anonymous sale, Christie's London, 1936. The work was lot 77 (Scipio lists the sellers at this sale as S.J. Farrer, Evelyn, Lady Watson, and H.U. Kuester.); Archibald Alexander Hutchinson, New York; his bequest to the Fogg Art Museum, 1949.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Archibald A. Hutchinson, Esq.
Accession Year
1949
Object Number
1949.114.37
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Of slightly tapering cylindrical form on broad flaring foot below a moulded band, the rim applied with a similar band, the tubular scroll handle with plain pentagonal flat terminal; the flat hinged domed cover with cast triangular thumb-piece; the front engraved with a coat of arms, helm and crest within foliate scroll mantling

Publication History

  • Christopher Hartop, British and Irish Silver in the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Art Museums/Yale University Press (Cambridge, Mass. and New Haven, 2007), pp. 40-41, cat. no. 9, repr. in b/w on p. 40.

Verification Level

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